There is a place where one must travel to find love. This is not a home. It is a secret garden: constructed by knobby hands, hidden from unknown antagonists. I’ve been gone for a year, returned,...

From Walker Percy's existential novel, "The Moviegoer," to John Kennedy Toole's Southern classic, "A Confederacy of Dunces," New Orleans is deeply rooted in its literary history. Tulane's Creative...